Suggestion: Server Without the Duty Finder

[LandricFrey]

Forgive me if this has been asked before. What would you think of having a single, new server in FFXIV with the Duty Finder removed?

Sure I don't use it now(as a cross server match-up anyway), but everyone else is; tempted by the shorter wait times.

I miss the old days of stronger, closely-knit communities where it was easier to make friends and people had reputations to uphold if they wanted to get in groups. If there was no DF, then everyone on the server would be using PF and/or communicating more. Don't have time to wait? Stay on the rest of the servers with DF.

I doubt it will ever happen, but it seems like something that would be easy to implement.

Thoughts?

[Magis]

If I didn't already have friends and fc mates on my server, I'd transfer. Sounds like a good community could foster there.

[Fevelle]

I like the DF.

[Colorful]

I wouldn't be interested. Sure, it may be nicer with current content but for everything else? Sometimes I just want to pop a trial roulette and play whatever it gives me, or if I'm leveling another class and queue for some low level dungeons. I'm not particularly interested in the hassle of creating a party, but I know some people are.

Why not? I'd stick to Tonberry, but if it has no effect on current servers I have no reason to oppose the idea.

[Saccharin]

Forgive me if this has been asked before. What would you think of having a single, new server in FFXIV with the Duty Finder removed?

Sure I don't use it now(as a cross server match-up anyway), but everyone else is; tempted by the shorter wait times.

I miss the old days of stronger, closely-knit communities where it was easier to make friends and people had reputations to uphold if they wanted to get in groups. If there was no DF, then everyone on the server would be using PF and/or communicating more. Don't have time to wait? Stay on the rest of the servers with DF.

I doubt it will ever happen, but it seems like something that would be easy to implement.

Thoughts?

Ask yourself why the DF was put in place.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Considering that incentives like extra EXP, gil, and tomestones are put into the DF to push people into using it so that others who need to do story quests or are wanting to do an optional dungeon aren't stuck in limbo, I don't think this idea is addressing that problem.

[Amiaze]

Huh, well it's really just a pipe dream, but I'd surely join a server without DF in the name of having a close-knit community that works together, and where negative actions have strong consequences.

But at the same time, we have to consider what will become of newer players or alternate classes. This idea rides on the assumption that people there will be willing to help you on lower-level content while you're still leveling. If we got friendly folks like the people on this forum on there then this wouldn't be an issue. But brand new players who don't even know what the Duty Finder is and elitist statics/FCs migrating there could easily kill the server.

[NovaLevossida]

I understand the sentiment for it, but I don't think it would work well in practice. FFXI wait times for groups with a single server population kind of prove the point on that. I think things like EverQuest's classic servers (roll back time to the release of the game, and expansions come out on an accelerated schedule so you can experience the game as it used to be and progress through over time) are better experiments, but FF14 hasn't been around long enough for that. Although a FF14 1.0 server would be something neat although they won't ever do that.

[Dyvid]

Thoughts?

DF is built into the very fiber of the game so no, they can't remove it make it feel like the old days whatever that means. Use Party Finder or group up with a friendly FC.

[Abelli]

Ask yourself why the DF was put in place.

Removing the duty finder may not be the right course of action. The problem is that MMOs have become increasingly anti-social. Most games u go from 1-max lvl without ever talking to others.

What developers need to address is the growing lack of social community in games. Having to talk to people to find a party meant those who were successful at this found good guilds and had a great time, but it certainly had its draw backs. Going back to where it was a chore to find a party may not be a good solution. I would like to see guilds play a specific role in the world and level up in unique ways. And maybe have the same thing for friend lists where the more you play with specific people the more bonuses you get.

So while you may think someone wanting to remove the duty finder is silly, keep in mind the reason they request it is because the growing isolation in MMO communities.